Stephanie McMahon

Think sports-entertainment is a man’s world? Stephanie McMahon will make sure you think again.

Mr. McMahon’s only daughter, Stephanie has been bossing WWE’s most powerful men around since she was old enough to form coherent sentences. But WWE’s Executive Vice President of Creative does a lot more than just talk. She’s proven herself to be a force to be reckoned with both in and out of the ring. After all, how many of CableFax’s "Most Powerful Women in Cable” are also former Women’s Champions?

Born into the sports-entertainment industry, Stephanie first got in on the family business by modeling Rockers T-shirts in the WWE Shop catalog when she was still in middle school. By the time WWE’s “Attitude Era” had taken pop culture by storm, the youngest McMahon was caught up in a rivalry between her father’s Corporation and The Undertaker’s wicked Ministry. She may have appeared overwhelmed at first, but within months of her debut, Stephanie had wed her father’s rival, Triple H, and orchestrated a takeover of WWE. It quickly became obvious that the McMahon family gusto didn’t just carry over to the Y chromosome.

In fact, Stephanie may have inherited even more of her father’s bravado than her brother, Shane. Gleefully sinister and constantly thinking one step ahead, the “Billionaire Princess” bought out ECW in 2001 and formed an alliance with her brother’s WCW in a failed attempt to overthrow WWE. She also falsely claimed to be pregnant to save her marriage with Triple H, battled Mr. McMahon in the only father versus daughter “I Quit” Match in history, and publically fired a humiliated Chris Jericho live on Raw. Clearly, there are no lengths Stephanie wouldn’t go to win a fight.

The former SmackDown General Manager’s appearances on WWE television have become more sporadic in recent years. Still, Stephanie McMahon is one of the driving forces taking WWE into the future. Good luck to anyone standing in her way.